Improvement in lasting-hammer



waited tatra @wat @meer Leners Patent No. 96,061, dazed october 19, 1869.

IMPROVM'ENT IN LASTING-HAMMER.

'.l.'1'1e Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all to whom. these presents shall come Be it'known that I, J ETHRO W. WARNER, of Dover,

in the county ofStraiTord, andState of N ew Hampshire,

have made' an invention of a new and useful Implement to be Employed in Making Boots and Shoes;

and do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,` and exact description thereof, due reference being had adaptation of a hammer, an awl, and a spacing-y wheel, and such object is accomplished by converting the claw or pene portion of the hammer-head into a chuck for holding an awl, and in afxing to the unencumbered end of the handle a spacing-wheel for indenting the sole of a boot for indicating the nail-holes to be punched.

The drawings accompanying this specification Arepresent a shoemakelis hammer, the head of which is shown at a, and the handle at b.

The striking-face of the hammer-head is denoted by the letter c, and its pene end at d.

In carrying out my invention, I curtail the pene end of the hammer-bead, asshown in the drawings, and form upon an offset thereto a chuck, e, of any suitable const-ruction for holding a stout awl, such as is now universally used in lasting boots and shoes.

Furthermore, in continuance of my invention, I aihx to the nnencumbered end of the hammer-handle a metallic shank, f, carrying an adjustable spacing-wheel, g, the outer extremity of the shank serving asa gauge, tobear against the outer edge of the s'ole, in manner as will readily be understood by boot and shoeniakers.

An implement made as above described will be found to answer the purposes of three separate instruments, Vand will at/once recommend itself to boot and shoe-manufacturers.

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire' to secure by Let-ters Patent, is-

A lasting-hammer, provided at one end with an awl or awl-chuck, and at the' other with a spacing-wheel, as herein shown and described.

J ETHRO W. WARNER.

vlVitnesses FRANK O. FRYE,

BENJAMIN H. WARNER. 

